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    Volvo appointed Samuelsson as new president and CEO

    2012-11-01T09:26:52Z

    Sweden – The board of directors of Volvo Car Group has appointed Håkan Samuelsson as new president and CEO. Stefan Jacoby will leave Volvo Car Group under an amicable agreement.Samuelsson was chairman and CEO of MAN SE between 2005 and 2009. Since 2010 he has been an independent member of ...

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    Volvo appointed Alain Visser to Sales vice-president post

    2012-09-01T10:47:31Z

    Sweden – Volvo Car Corporation has appointed Alain Visser to the new position of vice-president Sales Operations within Marketing, Sales and Customer Service.Visser comes from a position as vice-president Sales, Marketing and Aftersales for Opel and Vauxhall, based in Germany. His previous experience includes a variety of leadership positions in ...

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    Axelson leaves Volvo after 12 years

    2012-07-01T11:18:53Z

    Sweden – Volvo Car Corporation's senior vicepresident of public affairs, Olle Axelson, is leaving the company after 12 years as a member of the executive management team.Axelson was recruited to Volvo during summer 2000 and he has been operative under the executive management of four presidents and CEOs: Hans-Olov Olsson, ...

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    Danielson leads Volvo's manufacturing operations in China

    2011-01-01T17:24:43Z

    Gothenburg, Sweden – Lars Danielson has been appointed manager of Volvo’s manufacturing operations in China. Danielson was previously manager at Volvo Cars Torslanda.He will report to Freeman Shen, recently appointed as Senior Vice President, China Operations, and Magnus Hellsten, Volvo Cars’s Senior Vice President, Manufacturing.Danielson, 61, joined Volvo in June ...

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    Editor's Note: The price of progress for Volvo

    2011-01-01T09:49:09Z

    It’s widely believed that there is no such thing as a free lunch. In support of this truism, we can examine the case of Chinese carmaker Geely. Having bought Volvo from Ford in August for about RMB 11.3bn ($1.7bn), the Swedish premium vehicle manufacturer looked to be on considerably firmer ...

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    Pressing ahead at Volvo

    2009-03-01T09:57:35Z

    Volvo Car’s new transfer line is the latest interpretation of so-called classical manufacturing. AMS talks with Jonas Knutsson about the technologies that make it possibleNew take on an old ideaHaste makes no wasteAlist of the attributes of a classical manufacturing ‘transfer line’ reads like a litany of everything that modern ...